Category: management
There’s more to reward than headline-grabbing stories about City bonuses
The past year has been a tale of two sectors for reward. While most private-sector organisations froze pay in 2009 to keep down costs, much of the public sector continued to award pay rises, typically of 2 to 4 per cent, often dictated by long-term pay deals. This year, with the economy poised on the…
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Are work web blockers a waste of time?
He points to the Palo Alto Networks report we mentioned earlier as proof of this, with the companies taking part all having multiple security technologies to control users and applications; “yet the data showed that unwanted applications, threats and bandwidth consumption were widespread”. >>> read the full article at PC Pro
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Relax and accept World Cup fever
Do you remember all that fuss about employers losing productivity during the football World Cup? See my letter in the FT. It all seems so long ago. So how long will it be before we see the same conversation but centred around the Olympics? I think it will start about a year from now, get…
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The 20-Minute Course in Leading from the Bottom
Getting your hands dirty at the frontline of business is a useful reality check for managers. It can give practical insight into what is working – or not – and staff will value the input, as long as it is not seen as underhand or as micro-management Like it or not, sitcoms such as The…
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Pacman has wasted over 5 million work hours
We are all prone to distractions at work, be it surfing the internet for the latest holiday deals, checking Facebook, updating personal blogs or reading the gossip columns. However, are these distractions taking over our working lives? According to the media watchdog Ofcom we spend a worrying 25% of our day on the internet or…
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Defined by a Vegetable: Why Carrots Can’t Drive Performance
Exploring why values-based performance programs outperform traditional incentive schemes, featuring Jim Dittman’s insights on sustainable workplace transformation.
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